+Ichigo+ Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Just getting ready to order the parts for my new build. The system will be for gaming and light audio and video work. Wondering what peoples thoughts are on it. Intel Core i7-5930K 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor Asus X99-DELUXE ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/STRIXGTX980DC2OC4GD5/ G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case SeaSonic X Series 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive WD 1TB Green Drive for backup WD 3TB Black Drive for apps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tyranade Subscriber² Posted October 10, 2014 Subscriber² Share Posted October 10, 2014 Looks pretty solid to me, Power Supply is a SeaSonic and I have only heard good things (Seriously a lot of people still use generic no brand PSUs like WTF). Not a big fan of the case but that is personal preference. The only thing I would change is the 120GB SSD I would go for a 250GB at least. For a build this pricey you may as well spend a little more for a bigger SSD for more fast storage 120GB is barely enough these days. But Overall Apart from the case (I'd personally go with a Corsair 750D if I was building this PC) I would build that system if I had the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Looks pretty solid to me, Power Supply is a SeaSonic and I have only heard good things (Seriously a lot of people still use generic no brand PSUs like WTF). Not a big fan of the case but that is personal preference. The only thing I would change is the 120GB SSD I would go for a 250GB at least. For a build this pricey you may as well spend a little more for a bigger SSD for more fast storage 120GB is barely enough these days. But Overall Apart from the case (I'd personally go with a Corsair 750D if I was building this PC) I would build that system if I had the money. The reason I went with that case is cause the 2 140mm fans will blow cold air straight into the video card. I was originally going to get a reference cooler so it could suck in the cold air and exhaust out the back. The Rad has tons of room to mount as a pull setup in the top as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted October 10, 2014 Global Moderator Share Posted October 10, 2014 couple things: 1. A 1TB hard drive for backups is still a single point of failure. Make sure you have something else as well, or at the very least, RAID 2 of them. 2. Make sure that the case you chose actually handles the H100 cooler. I have a Corsair case that claims to be able to handle the H100, but it cant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 couple things: 1. A 1TB hard drive for backups is still a single point of failure. Make sure you have something else as well, or at the very least, RAID 2 of them. 2. Make sure that the case you chose actually handles the H100 cooler. I have a Corsair case that claims to be able to handle the H100, but it cant. The 1TB drive will also be backed up on cloud storage as well. The case does work with the cooler, I have seen a couple of builds with it and there is plenty of room. Forgot to mention there is a Intel 730 250gig SSD as well that I already have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted October 10, 2014 MVC Share Posted October 10, 2014 Useless your wanting wireless the Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 does pretty much everything for less. If your planing on going SLI the Intel Core i7-5930K is a good pick but if not the 5920K would seem a better pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 Useless your wanting wireless the Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 does pretty much everything for less. If your planing on going SLI the Intel Core i7-5930K is a good pick but if not the 5920K would seem a better pick. I have had bad experience with Gigabyte, so I am a little sour to them. The asus board does have the better audio and a couple more usb ports though(not a huge deal). I am going SLi but will wait for the cards to go down a bit before I buy a second one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted October 10, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted October 10, 2014 I have had bad experience with Gigabyte, so I am a little sour to them. The asus board does have the better audio and a couple more usb ports though(not a huge deal). I am going SLi but will wait for the cards to go down a bit before I buy a second one. when was your bad experience with Gigabyte? I've heard plenty of horror stories of them but within the last couple years they seem to have made a complete turn around & i hear almost all good things from their newer products now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted October 10, 2014 MVC Share Posted October 10, 2014 I have had bad experience with Gigabyte, so I am a little sour to them. Thats ok so what about the ASUS X99-A there is also the X99-S and PRO but harder to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 The only thing I would do would be to buy two of the SSD's and put them in a RAID-0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted October 10, 2014 Author Share Posted October 10, 2014 when was your bad experience with Gigabyte? I've heard plenty of horror stories of them but within the last couple years they seem to have made a complete turn around & i hear almost all good things from their newer products now About 3 to 4 years ago when I got my last board. Thats ok so what about the ASUS X99-A there is also the X99-S and PRO but harder to find. I could not find either of those boards locally, and for the price I am paying for the Deluxe it is not much more than the pro The only thing I would do would be to buy two of the SSD's and put them in a RAID-0. There will be two. One Samsung and one Intel. Later on I will get another Intel drive to replace the Samsung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted October 11, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted October 11, 2014 About 3 to 4 years ago when I got my last board. yeah that would have been right around when they were in the heat of their deserved bad rep so I don't really blame you for not trusting them again in any case it looks like that's gonna be a fun build to put together. so bleeding edge it burns my eyes a little :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 yeah that would have been right around when they were in the heat of their deserved bad rep so I don't really blame you for not trusting them again in any case it looks like that's gonna be a fun build to put together. so bleeding edge it burns my eyes a little :p Ya, it's going to be fun putting this beast together. I can't wait to see what kind of benchmarks I get out of this bad boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 There will be two. One Samsung and one Intel. Later on I will get another Intel drive to replace the Samsung. For RAID-0 the drives must match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted October 11, 2014 MVC Share Posted October 11, 2014 For RAID-0 the drives must match. Nope you can RAID 0 any different drives just that if one is 128GB and the other is 120GB your RAID 0 will be 240GB. Years back when I had a RAID 5 with SSD's I swapped one for a HDD and it worked...but the speeds were limited to the slowest drive made up of the array. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Nope you can RAID 0 any different drives just that if one is 128GB and the other is 120GB your RAID 0 will be 240GB. Years back when I had a RAID 5 with SSD's I swapped one for a HDD and it worked...but the speeds were limited to the slowest drive made up of the array. Ok you're right, but I do believe that it will still only double the size of the smallest drive. So in this case 130GB of space on the larger drive would not be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted October 12, 2014 Moderator Share Posted October 12, 2014 Stokkolm is correct. Straight from wikipedia: RAID 0 RAID 0 consists of striping, without mirroring or parity. The capacity of a RAID 0 volume is the sum of the capacities of the disks in the set, the same as with a spanned volume. There is no added redundancy for handling disk failures, just as with a spanned volume. Thus, failure of one disk causes the loss of the entire RAID 0 volume, with reduced possibilities of data recovery when compared to a broken spanned volume. Striping distributes the contents of files roughly equally among all disks in the set, which makes concurrent read or write operations on the multiple disks almost inevitable. The concurrent operations make the throughput of most read and write operations equal to the throughput of one disk multiplied by the number of disks. Increased throughput is the big benefit of RAID 0 versus spanned volume.[9] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted October 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted October 12, 2014 You can RAID 0 any drive size you want and it will RAID double (for a 2 drive setup) the size of the smallest drive for the array such that if you RAID 0 a 80GB and a 120GB drives you get 160GB array. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted October 12, 2014 Moderator Share Posted October 12, 2014 You can RAID 0 any drive size you want and it will RAID double (for a 2 drive setup) the size of the smallest drive for the array such that if you RAID 0 a 80GB and a 120GB drives you get 160GB array. Is that not what we are saying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted October 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted October 12, 2014 The only thing I would do would be to buy two of the SSD's and put them in a RAID-0. Yes, he could do that. But I wouldn't do that 1 SSD is fast enough. Yes 2 is faster but 2 just makes it twice as likely to have a failed drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted October 12, 2014 MVC Share Posted October 12, 2014 Is that not what we are saying? Maybe I'm just reading your posts wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ichigo+ Posted October 13, 2014 Author Share Posted October 13, 2014 UPDATE: I could not get the GTX 980 Reference card, so I am going with the Asus GTX 980 Strix :). Also the two intel drvies will be the same size and in raid 0 once I get the second drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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